William Blake  (1757–1827)
	Alternative names	W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
	Description	English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
	Date of birth/death	28 November 1757	12 August 1827
	Location of birth/death	London	London
	Work location	London; Felpham
	Authority file	: Q41513 VIAF: 54144439 ISNI: 000000012096135X ULAN: 500012489 LCCN: n78095331 NLA: 35019221 WorldCat

Identifier: artwilliam00bart (find matches)
Title: Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett.
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Bartlett, Truman Howe
Subjects: American Painting
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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SUPPLEMENT. 1 VA His influence, it seems to me, is seen in the best work of Mary Hallock Foote,and others, who, like her, drew enthusiasm from him. It was not in our work that he helped us, so much as in teaching us to see things. He wanted every impression to go through the influence of the imagination. There always seemed to me something particularly noble in the fearless way inwhich Dr. Rimmer would answer, I do not know, when questions were asked aboutmatters which he had not studied. He had a way of saying child to a favorite pupil; and I sometimes thought heconsidered all of us Cooper Institute girls as his children, and so treated us in the tenderway he treated his own family. He had no fondness for general society, saying that the atmosphere of most peopleoppressed him; although, to those whom he did find congenial, he was most stronglyattracted. His constant cry as he passed a pupil was, Work, work, work I He was exceedingly sensitive, observed the slightest tone or manner of

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